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Britain’s NHS rejects Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme

Britain’s NHS has rejected the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme. The UK’s coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.Leo Kelion for BBC News:The NHS says it has a way to make the software work “sufficiently well” on iPhones without users having to keep it active and on-screen. That limitation has posed problems for similar apps in other countries.
Like the authorities in many other cou
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